While many modern plants use colorful flowers to attract pollinators, ancient palm-like plants called cycads lure them by ...

Since the time of the dinosaurs, cycad plants may have attracted insects using infrared light. It may be the world's oldest ...

Escalating activity along a fault line in the Sea of Marmara is moving closer to Istanbul, seismologists warn.

The words “pollination” and “flower” may seem inseparable, but plants began courting insects millions of years before they ...

These days, we would call them proprietary blends. But in the late 1500s and early 1600s, individual alchemists called the ...

A stronomers using the JWST have traced the source of a long-duration gamma-ray burst back to a supernova that exploded ...

When Glushko earned his doctoral degree from UC San Diego in 1979, his thesis committee included David Rumelhart, Donald Norman, Jay McClelland and Jeff Elman, four of the world’s foremost cognitive ...

In the aviation industry the safety motto is “Deference to expertise, not rank.” It doesn’t matter if they are a seasoned ...

Archaeologists in Britain say they've found the earliest evidence of humans making fires anywhere in the world. The discovery ...

The Hjortspring boat carried warriors on an attempted attack of a Danish island over 2,000 years ago. Archaeologists have new clues about where these raiders came from.

From ancient Rome to medieval Spain to Renaissance Venice, generations of mariners have relied on biscotti as a source of ...

The tiny pantheon known as the Asgard archaea bear traits that hint at how plants, animals and fungi emerged on Earth.